January 28, 2021 the Honorable Chuck Schumer Majority Leader
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January 28, 2021 The Honorable Chuck Schumer The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Majority Leader Speaker United States Senate United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Mitch McConnell The Honorable Kevin McCarthy Republican Leader Republican Leader United States Senate United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20515 Dear Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader McCarthy: We ask for your help to end the restaurant tariffs. Restaurants, bars, and shops, the social heart of our local communities, cannot afford 25 percent tariffs on European food and drink products and cannot recover with them in place. Our industry needs the tariffs to end immediately. Tariffs hurt many industries, but they hurt the hospitality industry most. As the crisis facing our industry deepens, the urgency of tariff relief grows. Our formula for survival through this economic crisis is simple: for each customer, we need to maximize sales of profit drivers like wine by the glass, and minimize the cost of inputs like cheese, olive oil, meat, and other food. These expensive tariffs make that impossible. We are gravely concerned that existing and proposed support programs do not, or will not, provide relief of the restaurant tariffs. We are also concerned that given the uncertain prospects for bilateral negotiations between the United States and the European Union, tariff relief may not come until well into 2021, or later. In place for over a year, the restaurant tariffs have in no way pressured the European Union to end its aircraft subsidies, yet the United States has kept these tariffs in place through the greatest crisis our industry has ever faced. The United States and European Union remain far apart on even basic elements of the dispute, and negotiations, however well-intentioned, may stall out simply given that the aircraft industry needs subsidies now as much as any point in history. Ending the restaurant tariffs would immediately stimulate the social heart of our local communities. We should no longer be part of this aircraft dispute. We ask for your support in ending the restaurant tariffs when they come up for review in early February. STOPRESTAURANTTARIFFS.ORG Thank you for considering the urgent needs of our industry. We look forward to working with you to end the restaurant tariffs. Sincerely, Mashama Bailey & Johno Morisano Mike Lata The Grey, The Grey Market FIG, The Ordinary Savannah, GA Charleston, SC Daniel Boulud Neal McCarthy Daniel, Daniel Boulud Kitchen, Bar Boulud, Miller Union Boulud Sud, Café Boulud, Bar Pleiades, DEB Atlanta, GA Bistro Moderne, Epicerie Boulud at Lincoln Center, Epicerie Boulud at World Trade Center Danny Meyer Oculus, DBGB Kitchen and Bar Union Square Hospitality Group New York, NY; Miami, FL; Palm Beach, FL; New York, NY Washington, D.C. Kwame Onwuachi Nina Compton Kith/Kin Bywater American Bistro, Compère Lapin Washington, D.C. New Orleans, LA Cara and Noah Sandoval Mark Firth Oriole, Kumiko, Kikko, PFPizza The Prairie Whale, Marlow and Sons Chicago, IL Great Barrington, MA Steven Satterfield Andrew Fortgang Miller Union Le Pigeon, Canard Atlanta, GA Portland, OR Chris Shepherd Thomas Keller, Catalan Food & Wine, Georgia James, The Hay The French Laundry, Bouchon Bistro, Per Se, The Merchant, One/Fifth, Preserv, Blacksmith Surf Club, Bouchon Bakery, La Calenda Houston, TX Yountville, CA; Las Vegas, NV; New York, NY; Surfside, CA Alice Waters Chez Panisse, Café Fanny Granola Cheetie Kumar Berkeley, CA Garland Raleigh, NC ALABAMA Bottega - Birmingham, AL (CD-6) Grassroots Wine - Birmingham, AL (CD-6) Wash House Restaurant - Fairhope, AL (CD-1) International Wines and Craft Beer - Birmingham, AL The Noble South - Mobile, AL (CD-1) (CD-6) Perdido Beach Resort - Orange Beach, AL (CD-1) Vino - Mountain Brook, AL (CD-6) El Rey Burrito Lounge - Montgomery, AL (CD-2) Chez Fonfon - Birmingham, AL (CD-7) Leroy - Montgomery, AL (CD-2) EastWest - 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